Composition Quote by Nicolas Godin

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar…

— Lights

It is amazing when you try and write songs without an instrument. It kind of forces the melody to be honed it. It has…

— Graham Colton

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song…

— Dweezil Zappa

As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a song is…

— Chris de Burgh

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

— Joey Jordison

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on…

— Brooke Valentine

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

— Avi Kaplan

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music…

— Mpho Koaho

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a…

— Bob Seger

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let…

— Juicy J

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie